Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deprivation or absence of encouragement; discouragement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Discouragement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
discouragement
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Examples
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Dearness may not be a disencouragement to this excellent Practice.
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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Littleton's Tenures, in small pamphlet volumes, young mathematicians, fresh-water physicians, civilian novices, and _les apprentices en la ley d'Angleterre_, would be at a loss and stand, and total disencouragement.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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